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@rock185 - I agree with your assessment of the lee dies. I was shocked when someone told me to check the inside of the lee dies and I saw tooling marks all over surfaces that made contact with the case in my resizing die.
Any quality tool should be free of tooling marks, especially if the surface is designed to contact something else. It should be polished up to a mirror finish.
No more lee dies for this guy (the two i do own were part of a package deal, thank god the rest were hornady dies they seem to be much better quality. though i am sure there are even better than hornady out there)
You can tell by the design that lee dies are made to be cheap as possible, they are extremely short as to minimize materials cost for the steel, and the visible tooling marks. They do get the job done, don't get me wrong, but i'd rather use better quality tools.
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